MFA student, Praveen Maripelly, has been named a 2022-2023 Mary Christine Kohler Fellow. His project “seeks to blur lines between gender and caste issues, address institutional racism and colourism, and build social interactions and relations between people in rural areas and the greater global community through ethical components of generosity, hospitality, connections, and social aesthetic …
Beloved member of the CSA and larger UW-Madison community, Joann Elder, will be celebrated with a memorial gathering on October 29th. Joann and her husband Professor Joe Elder were both key figures in the establishment and growth of the Center and the College Year in India and Nepal program onward since the 1960s. Having both taught and conducted research …
Professors Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Anirban Baishya (Department of Communication Arts) have co-edited a special edition of Porn Studies journal, which focuses on South Asian pornographies.
Ph.D. student Zishan Jiwani and Professor Simon Goldberg (Department of Counseling Psychology) have published a paper in the Journal of Social Issues entitled “Caste and COVID-19: Psychosocial disparities amongst rural Indian women during the coronavirus pandemic.”
Sahil Sasidharan, Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography, has received the Top-Up Fellowship from the Holtz Center for the 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 academic years.
Ujaan Ghosh, Ph.D. student, published an article, “The City Possessed: Ghost Stories and the Urban History of Late Colonial Culcutta”, in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.
Congratulations to Dr. Darshana Sreedhar Mini and Shahana Munazir on receiving fellowships from the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)! Darshana Sreedhar Mini, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Arts, was awarded a senior fellowship to carry out the project “Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India.” Professor Mini’s fellowship is funded by …
Amrita Chowdhury (Ph.D. Student, Asian Languages and Cultures) and Ujaan Ghosh (Ph.D Candidate, Art History) translated two essays of Sacchidananda Mishra and Krushnachandra Panigrahi from Odia to English. The essays are now published from Routledge India under the title, Critical Discourse in Odia, a volume edited by Jatin Nayak and Animesh Mohapatra.Read about the book here
Shahana Munazir, a graduate student in University of Wisconsin – Madison’s Department of Anthropology, has received the Hyde Dissertation Research Award for Graduate Students. In a twelve-month ethnographic study, her work will understand how Muslim women habitually attend to others in their daily lives, the politics of relatedness that ensues from such care, social worlds that …